Households in Sebewaing have lower incomes than those in 90% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 4% of workers; Michigan has 14%. 13.1% of residents are in poverty, where Michigan as a whole has 13.2%. Jobs and income earn Sebewaing D; getting around on foot earns it A.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2021, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Sebewaing in brief
Sebewaing and Sebewaing Township trade workers both ways
Sebewaing Township is the top workplace for Sebewaing residents (21%) and also where the most people who work in Sebewaing come from (26% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Sebewaing workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 14% across Michigan. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2021, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; 2021 is the newest year Michigan has published; with 683 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Sebewaing: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Sebewaing is better than 9% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Sebewaing’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($48,125, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (6.4%) is left out: Sebewaing’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
The commuting and job counts on this page are Census LEHD 2021: Michigan reports later than other states, so its newest year is two years behind.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Sebewaing could be anywhere from D− to C−.
21% of working residents work in Sebewaing Township
Where Sebewaing clocks in
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Each way, about 20 minutes from Sebewaing
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sebewaing workers work from home, vs 14% across Michigan. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 749 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across Michigan: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Sebewaing on a workday afternoon
On a workday 634 residents head out to work, 49 work right here, and 209 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Sebewaing on a workday afternoon, 25% fewer than live here.
0.38 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2021, primary jobs.
What Sebewaing’s employers do
258 jobs are based in Sebewaing.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sebewaing, 2011 → 2021: 270 → 258. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2021.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sebewaing’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Sebewaing commutes less than 22 miles
About 27% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2021.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Sebewaing, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sebewaing is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.8% across Michigan, on an EPA index of 8.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 781 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 11.7% of Sebewaing households have no vehicle (Michigan 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sebewaing’s commuters take a bus or train.
Sebewaing next to U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300: 4,906th of 5,760 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 99 | Caledonia MI | 1,778 | $106K | 3.7% | 0.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 206 | Wheatfield Township MI | 1,659 | $117K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 249 | Sylvan Lake MI | 1,685 | $106K | 5.4% | 2.9% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,904 | Bayou La Batre AL | 2,068 | $38K | 29.7% | 2.6% | 10% | D |
| 4,905 | Dillsboro IN | 1,375 | $49K | 14.9% | 2.8% | 5% | D |
| 4,906 | Sebewaing MI | 1,678 | $48K | 13.1% | 6.4% | 7% | D |
| 4,907 | Philmont NY | 1,466 | $57K | 21.6% | 7.1% | 2% | D |
| 4,908 | Newkirk OK | 2,246 | $53K | 14.9% | 3.5% | 13% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Sebewaing, the top three, the last and three more from Michigan.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2021, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Sebewaing: questions
What is the median household income in Sebewaing?
$48,125 (±$10,256) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,875 across Michigan and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sebewaing?
13.1%, against 13.2% across Michigan and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sebewaing?
20 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Michigan and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sebewaing work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sebewaing Township (21%, 2 mi), Winsor Township (11%, 10 mi), Caro (5%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2021).
Is Sebewaing walkable?
Sebewaing is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.4 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sebewaing without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sebewaing, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sebewaing
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2021, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.